The true test for the Toronto Raptors will come not from the Philadelphia 76ers on Sunday evening, it will come from themselves — their pride, their intensity, their professionalism.
It would be easy, so, so easy, for the Raptors to take the Sixers lightly and to coast, to rest on their superior talent and record. It would also be ill advised to do that because if there’s one truism at this time of the NBA season, it’s that the moment you take an opponent lightly is the moment they jump up and beat you.
“They are playing hard but you look at their record, so do you let down?